by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 16, 2012 | Asides
I was wondering about this guy as i hadn’t hear much since I saw the initial article about Felix Baumgartner’s upcoming 120,000′ skydive attempt in Outside Magazine. (Plus, my kids, who read the article too, kept asking me whether or not this guy had...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 14, 2012 | Asides
Newburgh is the town right across the river from where I live and the city where I worked for 15 years. It has seen a number of improvements over the last many years, but clearly it has a ways to go. At 106 gang-related arrests it far exceeds any other place on this...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 11, 2012 | Asides
One of the few umpiring names that I know, I can recall several games that Wendelstedt called. His NYTimes obit here.
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 9, 2012 | Asides
Take a look at this picture and tell me what unemployment trend you see. I know it’s anecdotal, but most of the people in this line are males over 50. via LATimes.com
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 8, 2012 | Theater
An excellent collection of interviews about Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Salesman was the first piece of live professional theater I ever saw and today I can still feel the weight of that production. (Thank you Ashland Shakespeare Festival!) It is currently in...
